After spending about a week handling requests for permissions, I can clearly see that it needs a huge fix.

It would all be a lot easier if I could just assign people to multiple groups. Yet what's under you your name when your post is currently the only "group" you're in.

There's three things in JCINK for permissions:

User Group: a group of people that will share the same permission masks and moderation abilities. Only one group per person. Many permission masks per group.

Permission Mask: A collection of subforums that a user with this mask can see.
Examples: Locker room masks, Job headquarters masks

Moderator: A person who can edit/modify a post/subforum.




I'm thinking we might have to break this up into 3 "tiers" of groups:

- Members
Can only do basic forum actions like post replies and new topics.
Group: Default

- Elevated
Can modify posts in certain forums that need to be edited.
Still need specific permission masks for the job's headquarters
Groups: People with Jobs, GM's.

- Executive
Can modify any post
Can see all job headquarters
Group: Head office



This way if somebody gets a job, they only need to move from members to elevated, and I just have to switch the permission masks.

I won't do this soon, in fact I'll probably wait until this season is over. But if anybody has any suggestions of concerns let me know.